Word: defeats
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Beverly, Mass., July 17, 1985. Faced with mounting community opposition, a North Shore shelter for the homeless withdraws its offer to by an abandoned building in a dilapidated neighborhood. Shelter officials attribute the defeat to "misconceptions and and unfounded fears" on the part of residents about the introduction of a shelter into their residential area...
...Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government to take a tumble. In the 1983 general election, the Tories carried the district, which comprises mainly small beef and sheep farmers, by almost 9,000 votes. But in a by-election reversal last week, Brecon and Radnor voters handed the government a stunning defeat. Conservative Christopher Butler finished last among the three major candidates with a dismal 27.6% of the vote. Butler's total of 10,631 votes left him 3,122 ballots behind the winner, Social Democratic/Liberal Alliance Candidate Richard Livsey. The Labor Party nominee, Richard Willey, finished a close second, just...
British observers saw the Conservative defeat as more than the usual midterm by-election setback. Said Liberal Party Press Spokesman Jim Dumsday: "The sheer size of the Conservative failure is quite out of proportion with what one would expect from just midterm blues." Also, because the Brecon and Radnor vote was only the eighth by-election since the 1983 Conservative landslide, it provided a rare opportunity for voters to express their opinion of the Thatcher government. Liberal Party canvassers found that the overriding issue was Thatcher's aggressive style and personality. "We kept hearing, 'It's that woman...
...defeat will increase pressure on Thatcher from moderate Tories, known as the "wets," to respond to Britain's 13.4% unemployment rate with stepped- up spending for public-sector jobs. The dissident Conservatives, including ex-Foreign Secretary Francis Pym, fear that unless the Prime Minister shows more compassion about unemployment, the centrist alliance between the Liberal and Social Democratic parties will continue to erode Tory support...
...sophisticated than most network documentaries. Except for an ultrasmooth on-camera host, Charlton Heston, the program is rather dry and technically clumsy. Many of its charges seem directed less at the Viet Nam series than at general policies and attitudes that, in AIM's view, contributed to the U.S. defeat in Viet Nam. The program exhumes, for example, the old conservative charge that the media misled the nation about the 1968 Tet offensive and resurrects news footage of a smiling Jane Fonda visiting North Viet Nam, accompanied by mocking music...